Wednesday preview: Burberry, Fresnillo

12th Oct 2010 17:56

Burberry has been setting pulses racing lately, not just at London Fashion Week, but among traders as rumours of a bid for the luxury clothing group do the rounds. A private equity group could be circling.But the focus in tomorrow's trading update is likely to be on the raw figures. JP Morgan Cazenove is looking for a 17% rise in underlying sales.Another FTSE 100 company catering for expensive tastes, Fresnillo, which mines for gold and silver in Mexico, will issue third quarter production figures. With prices for both precious metals hitting highs recently, traders will be interested to see if the miner has maximised output.INTERIMS Datatec Ltd. (DI), Walker Greenbank INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE CPP Group, Dairy Farm International (Singapore), Hongkong Land Holding Ltd. (Singapore), Jardine Matheson (Singapore), Jardine Strategic (Singapore), KBC Advanced Technologies, Lancashire Holdings, Restaurant Group, Wellstream Holdings INTERIM EX-DIVIDEND DATE All Leisure Group, Ashley (Laura) Holding, British American Inv Trust, Camellia, Cobham, Forth Ports, Johnson Service Group, Kerry Group 'A', Matrix Income & Growth 4 VCT, Maven Income and Growth VCT 2 , Old Mutual, Rightmove, Spirax-Sarco Engineering, Staffline Group, STM Group, Tesco, TT Electronics, Yule Catto QUARTERLY EX-DIVIDEND DATE F&C Commercial Property Trust, Henderson Global Property Companies Ltd., Investors Capital Trust 'A' Shares INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS M3 Money Supply (JPN) Machine Orders (JPN) Consumer Price Index (FRA) (06:30) Industrial Production (EU) (10:00) MBA Mortgage Applications (US) (12:00) Import and Export Price Indices (US) (13:30) Crude Oil Inventories (US) (15:30) Treasury Budget Statement (US) (19:00) Q3 JP Morgan Chase GMS ACTA, Northern Venture Trust SPECIAL EX-DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE Quayle Munro EGMS Meikles Ld AGMS Avingtrans, Goodwin Plc, Haynes Publishing Group TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS Burberry Group, Fresnillo UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS Claimant Count Rate (09:30) Unemployment Rate (09:30) Average Weekly Earnings (09:30) ILO Unemployment Rate (09:30) FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE Airsprung Group FINAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE Daejan Holdings, Eaga, Epicure Qatar Equity Opportunities, Hargreaves Services, Henderson EuroTrust, Quayle Munro, System C Healthcare, Wilmington Group